Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Boronia rigens
Common name
Stiff boronia
Family
Rutaceae
Where found
Dry forest, heath, and stable dunes. Ranges and tablelands. Occasionally coastal.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets more or less hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, compound, mostly with 3 leaflets, each 0.3–0.6 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, thick, margins entire, surfaces often glandular-warty, and hairless to hairy especially along the midvein on the lower surface, tips pointed and often curved down. Flowers white to pale pink, with 4 petals each 2.5–3.5 mm long. Petals overlapping each other in bud, persisting at the seeding stage. 8 stamens. Flowers single. Flowers Winter.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Boronia~rigens (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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